Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Author: John Steinbeck
Desc: A quest across America from the northernmost tip of Maine to California’s Monterey Peninsula To hear the speech of the real America to smell the grass and the trees to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out at the age of fifty-eight to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. With Charley his French poodle Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads dines with truckers encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco. Along the way he reflects on the American character racial hostility the particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere and the unexpected kindness of strangers.